[1] About this season, Nicholas the cardinall of the holie crosse was sent into France,A legat from Rome sent to treat a peace betwixt the English and French. as a legat from Eugenie the fourth as then bishop of Rome, to treat a peace betwéene the Englishmen and Frenchmen. But when after great instance and labour made be|tweene the parties, he saw their obstinate and fro|ward minds, nothing inclined to anie agréement, he wan so much at their hands by earnest sute, that a truce was granted to indure for six yeares to come: but as the same was hardlie granted,A truce for six yeares. so was it of the Frenchmen soone and lightlie broken. For the ba|stard of Orleance newlie made earle of Dunois, tooke by treson the towne of Chartres from the Eng|lishmen,Chartres ta|ken by treason notwithstan|ding the truce. affirming by the law of armes, that stea|ling or buieng a towne, without inuasion or assault, was no breach of league, amitie, or truce. In which towne he slue the bishop, bicause he was a Burgo|gnian. Hereby did new malice increase, and mortall warre began eftsoones to be put in vre.